The 2016 John Gaus Lecture: The New Guerrilla Government: Are Big Data, Hyper Social Media and Contracting Out Changing the Ethics of Dissent?

O’Leary, Rosemary

doi:10.1017/s1049096516002018

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“…Within this agential dimension, civil servants can behave in a way that is intended to undermine and challenge their superiors. The tactics employed by such administrators, according to O'Leary (; ), are best framed through three interdependent lenses: bureaucratic politics, ethics, and organization and management. Each of these lenses come together to provide a deeper insight into guerrilla government behavior.…”

Section: Guerrilla Governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Public Employees Rebel: Guerrilla Government in the Public Sector

Hollibaugh

Miles

Newswander

2019

Public Administration Review

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Employee recalcitrance and employer reprisal are ever-present conditions in public service. Yet we have limited knowledge of the forces that move administrators away from acquiescence and toward antagonism. The authors follow the theoretical thrust of behavioral public administration to better understand administrative behavior by targeting the determinants of guerrilla government actions. They do so by presenting the results of a conjoint experiment embedded in a survey of federal bureaucrats. Findings show that decisions to pursue guerrilla activities are conditional on a multitude of factors-namely, the bureaucrat's personal views of the directive as a policy solution, the compatibility of the directive with the bureaucrat's ethical framework, the status of the person issuing the directive, and the probability that the directive might cause harm to others. Notably, these decisions generally are not affected by the probability of retribution or the expected type thereof. However, they are affected by the magnitude of harm that may ensue if orders are obeyed and not resisted.

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Section: Guerrilla Governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%